MIX is an intimate opportunity for cutting-edge technical, creative and business strategists to engage Microsoft in a conversation about the future of the web. In Las Vegas on March 5-7, 2008 MIX08 attendees explored the latest wave of opportunities and helped redefine the boundaries between: content and commerce, PC and TV, Windows and the Web.
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Keynote I
From the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect, will be joined by Corporate Vice President, Scott Guthrie and General Manager, Dean Hachamovitch to demonstrate the latest technologies built for Microsoft's Web platform. Ray will lay out his vision of the future to this audience...
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Lighting Up Your AJAX Applications with Silverlight
Come learn how to integrate Microsoft Silverlight with existing AJAX applications, including using Silverlight to add powerful new functionality like true background processing and local storage. Also learn about new ASP.NET server controls that make it easy to add XAML and media content to web pages.....
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How Design Impacts the Bottom Line
Is good design good business? Listen to these customers discuss how good design helped them: - Reach the market faster with lower development costs - Increase the revenues and retained earnings of their products or services - Increase market share You'll hear how design has created real competitive advantage...
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Integrating Media in Silverlight Applications
Come learn how to incorporate media into Microsoft Silverlight applications including video playback capabilities and programmatic control of the media display. Also learn about the new content protection features of Silverlight, including the proper workflow for implementing content protection and integrity....
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What's the Secret Formula?
We've built airplanes that travel faster than sound, ships that resemble small towns, rockets that take people to the moon, and phones that you can carry everywhere you go. Why is it, then, that we haven't found a way to build software that always looks good, feels good, and just works? Shouldn't it...
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Making it Simple: Designer/Developer Workflow
How do you combine a designer's vision with the requirements of productive software? Left brain/Right brain workflow is a sophisticated problem that impacts us all but has no easy answers. Industry experts will share their learnings and invite you to join in on a lively discussion about the merits and...
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Silverlight on a LAMP Site for Media: UVNTV.com
UVNTV.com is a LAMP site (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) that is using Windows Media servers to recreate a TV experience on the web using Silverlight. They chose to use Silverlight becuase of the higher quality they were getting out of WMV/VC-1 than Flash's On2 codec. The team will explain how and why they...
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Adding Instant Messaging to Any Site
Learn how your web site visitors can engage with Windows Live Messenger users by taking advantage of the Windows Live Messenger control and library. This session covers how to code with the Messenger Library in JavaScript or C# (using Script#), and we also show how you can drive Microsoft Silverlight...
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Using the Microsoft Sync Framework and FeedSync
Learn how to use the Microsoft Sync Framework to build sync-enabled applications to enable online and offline scenarios leveraging services across a broad variety of endpoints. Also find out how to expose data as FeedSync compatible RSS and ATOM feeds.
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RESTful Data Services with the ADO.NET Data Services Framework
Learn how to use ADO.NET Data Services Framework to easily create and consume REST data services on the web. This session will cover the main concepts of the ADO.NET Data Services Framework (aka Project "Astoria"), show how to use it, and discuss how to use it with Microsoft's broader vision of a common...